Study about minimal design of human presence

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26560018
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Design science
• Research Institution: Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International
• Principal Investigator: Sumioka Hidenobu 株式会社国際電気通信基礎技術研究所, 石黒浩特別研究所, 研究員 (80636423)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 人の感情伝達 / メディア開発 / 遠隔コミュニケーション支援

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This project aimed to investigate requirements to design an interface which provide a feeling of human presence for us, addressing (1) identifying elements that convey human presence in each modality, (2) studying about the effect of multi-modal integration of humanlike features on human presence, and (3) investigating the influence of the interface that provide human presence on our community.
Through the project, we found that (1) people behave as they interact with a human even when communication media have humanlike appearance, (2) a communication medium that provides humanlike voice and tactile sensation might enhance children' feeling of human presence toward them, and (3) human-shaped communication media facilitate disclosing personal information for users to conversation partners and developing intimate relationship between them.

Free Research Field

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